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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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5139
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the ...
(published as 'Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom', in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (2), 235 - 265)
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J24, J22, I20, L74
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5138
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual ...
(published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011)
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D11, J00
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5135
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Emilia
Simeonova
William
Copeland
Adrian
Angold
Jane
E.
Costello
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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity
This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains ...
(published as 'Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 1-28)
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I10, I12, I38
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5132
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Mehtabul
Azam
Nishith
Prakash
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A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 394–414)
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J3, J45
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5131
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Nicolas
Petrosky-Nadeau
Etienne
Wasmer
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke and
Gertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 5 (1), 193-221)
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E44, J60
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5127
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Haoran
He
Peter
Martinsson
Ping
Qin
Matthias
Sutter
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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536)
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C91, C92, C93, D10
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5126
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Heiko
Stüber
Thomas
Beissinger
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Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?
Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 870-887)
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E24, E31, J31
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5125
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David
McKenzie
Dean
Yang
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Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269)
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O12, J61, F22, C21
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5124
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375)
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O15, F22, J61
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5123
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Migration and Culture
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring ...
(published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010)
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R23, O15, F22
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